Book Description

Size 12mo, 14 x 9.5cm; xiv, 238pp Bound in more recent green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, binding solid, original free endpapers, rear with period handwriting (see photos) Former Liverpool library copy with ownership to binding and a few small stamps within. Text in very good condition, toning commensurate with age. Scarce title.
Dealer Notes
Ellis Pugh joined the society of friends aged 18, and in 1686 he, his family and many other Welsh people started on the long voyage to Pennsylvania. He settled as a farmer and continued his ministry.
Pugh left in manuscript Annerch y Cymru, which was the first book in Welsh published in America, and reprinted in London in 1782 and 1801 (THIS EDITION)
Author PUGH, Ellis, Quaker
Date 1801
Binding Green Cloth
Publisher Llundain: William Phillips
Illustrator -
Condition Very Good
Pages xiv, 238pp

Friends of the PBFA

For £10 get free entry to our fairs, updates from the PBFA and more.

Please email info@pbfa.org for more information

Join PBFA

Membership of the PBFA is open to anyone who has been trading in antiquarian and second-hand books for a minimum of two years subject to certain criteria.

Email info@pbfa.org to find out more, or complete the enquiry form.

complete the form